Nicholas Harding
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Nicholas Harding Nicholas Harding (b.1956) is a highly regarded BritishAustralian artist known for his large scale painted portraits and pen and ink drawings. Harding came to Australia from England as a six-year-old. After studying for a BA he worked for twenty-two years as a freelance animator. Meanwhile, he was became known, early on, for huge pen and ink depictions of the railway tracks and shabby streets of inner Sydney, and the scrubby trees of the beaches of the north coast of New South Wales. His lush paintings on the same themes, as well as flowers, beach and river scenes and caravan parks are now in high demand from collectors. Since 1994 he has been a regular exhibitor in the Archibald, Wynn, Dobell, and Sulman prizes. In 2001, the first of several triumphant years, Harding won the Dobell Drawing Prize as well as the Archibald. Harding was the most-represented artist in the National Portrait Gallery exhibition Idle Hours in 2009-2010. A major retrospective of his work, Nicholas Harding: Drawn to Paint was at the SH Ervin Gallery in Sydney over the same period. Harding’s work is held in the collections at the National Gallery Canberra, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Newcastle Region Art Gallery.
Wiljakali Saltbush, 2018 Archival pigment print on HahnemĂźhle Fine Art paper Image size 61.5 x 69cm Edition of 25 AUD $1,500
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Magnolia and Vine, 2018 Archival pigment print on HahnemĂźhle Fine Art paper Image size 61 x 61cm Edition of 25 AUD $1,500
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Nicholas Harding BIOGRAPHY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1956 Born UK 1965 Came to Australia 1975 Studied Bachelor of Arts 1977 Travelled to Europe & UK
2015 Important works on paper and sculpture, Olsen Irwin Autumn Group Show, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne 2014 Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney ‘Arcadia: Sound of the sea’, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra and tour. Tradition and Transformation: Taiwan-Australia Watercolour Exhibition, Quanhua Watercolour Art Gallery, Shanghai, China and Shenzhen Fine Art Museum, Shenzhen, China 2013 20 Years of the Dobell Prize for Drawing, touring Grafton Regional Gallery, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Orange Regional Gallery, National Art School Gallery, Tweed Regional Gallery Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Sophie Gannon Gallery & Olsen Irwin Melbourne Art Fair, Sophie Gannon Gallery Gallery Artists, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne 2012 Wynne Prize, AGNSW Melbourne Art Fair, Sophie Gannon Gallery Kedumba Collection of Contemporar Drawing, Orange Regional Gallery ‘Harding and Newis: Paintings’, Osborne Samuel, London 2011 Archibald Prize, AGNSW Moran Portrait Prize, State Library of NSW BIG/small, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney 2010 Melbourne Art Fair, Sophie Gannon Gallery Beleura National Works on Paper Award, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery ‘Paper trail’, Newcastle Region Art Gallery Recent Acquisitions from the MRAG Collection, Maitland Regional Art Gallery 2009 Heads, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Archibald Prize, AGNSW Moran Portrait Prize, State Library of NSW Hazelhurst Art Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2002 2001 1999 1997 1995 1993 1992
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OLSEN Gallery, Sydney Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne ‘Drawn to Paint’, 25 year survey exhibition SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Crossley Scott, Melbourne Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Crossley Scott, Melbourne Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Theo Waddington Fine Art, London Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
2007 ‘Shilo Project’, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne ‘Controversy and Acclaim: Highlights of the Mosman Art Prize’, Mosman Art Gallery ‘Idle Hours’, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Figurative Painting, Hill Smith Gallery,Adelaide 2008 Figure in the Landscape, Rex Irwin Art Dealer Led Zeppelin World Tour, SH Ervin Gallery & Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Important Drawings, Sculpture & Ceramics, Rex Irwin Art Dealer Nicholas Harding: On Drawing & Painting, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Melbourne Art Fair The Kedumba Collection of Contemporary Australian Drawing, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 2007 Sulman Prize, AGNSW Ned Kelly Framed, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney Australian Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Art Dealer The View From Here: Margaret Olley, William Robinson & Nicholas Harding, Lismore Regional Art Gallery 2006 Inaugural Exhibition, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne Kilgour Prize, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW Archibald Prize, AGNSW Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin 2005 Archibald Prize, AGNSW Australian Icons Framed, SH Ervin Gallery, NSW Open Bite (Cicada Press), COFA, Sydney Important Works On Paper, Crossley and Scott, Melbourne The Sea, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Thai-Australian Contemporary Prints, Chiangmai University Art Museum, Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Regional Gallery Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Extinction Denied, Sydney
2004 Contemporary Australian Prints, AGNSW Still Life, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney Dobell Drawing Prize: The First Ten Years, AGNSW Moran Portrait Prize, State Library of NSW Archibald Prize, AGNSW Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin 2003 Sulman Prize, AGNSW Wynne Prize, AGNSW Archibald Prize, AGNSW Ned Kelly Framed, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Extinction Denied, Sydney 2002 Archibald Prize, AGNSW Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Briefcase 50, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney Jacaranda Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery NSW The Year in Art, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney Extinction Denied, Sydney 2001 Mosman Art Prize, Sydney Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Dobell Prize, AGNSW Archibald Prize, AGNSW Favourites, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney Grant Pirrie Artist-In-Residence Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Extinction Denied, Sydney 2000 Mosman Art Prize, Sydney Dobell Prize and Archibald Prize, AGNSW Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney Favourites, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Inaugural Exhibition, Dickerson Scott, Melbourne Images of Sydney, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 1999 Mosman Art Prize, Sydney Dobell Prize, AGNSW Archibald Prize, AGNSW Universities and Schools Club Prize, Sydney Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin 1998 Sulman Prize, AGNSW Wynne Prize, AGNSW
1998 Archibald Prize, AGNSW Mosman Art Prize, Sydney Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney 1997 Archibald Prize, AGNSW Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin 1996 Dobell Prize, AGNSW Wynne Prize, AGNSW Archibald Prize, AGNSW Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin 1995 Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney Archibald Prize, AGNSW Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin 1994 Kedumba Drawing Award, NSW Dobell Prize, AGNSW Wynne Prize, AGNSW Archibald Prize, AGNSW Mosman Art Prize, Sydney Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin 1993 Kedumba Drawing Award, NSW Mosman Art Prize, Sydney Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney Dobell Prize, AGNSW Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin 1992 Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin 1990 Sydney Morning Herald Art Prize 1989 Sydney Morning Herald Art Prize 1985 Sydney Morning Herald Art Prize Faber-Castell Art Prize, Rex Irwin Art Dealer 1983 Sydney Morning Herald Art Prize 1982 Sydney Morning Herald Art Prize 1980 Sulman Prize, AGNSW
COLLECTIONS: National Gallery of Australia National Portrait Gallery Art Gallery of New South Wales Newcastle Region Art Gallery Tweed River Art Gallery Maitland Regional Art Gallery Kedumba Gallery of Contemporary Drawing University of New South Wales Art Collection Mosman Municipal Council APRA/AMCOS Opera Australia University and Schools Club University of Sydney Union Private and corporate collections worldwide AWARDS / COMMISSIONS: 2006 2005 2005 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2000 1999 1998 1994 1993
Kilgour Prize People’s Choice, Archibald Prize Highly commended, Archibald Prize Archibald Prize Dobell Drawing Prize Australian Centenary Medal Kings School Art Prize Hills Grammar Prize Lane Cove Drawing and Print Prize Universities and Schools Club Prize Commended, Archibald Prize Kedumba Drawing Award Mosman Art Prize
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